A design pattern I've noticed being used recently in some Android apps is a simple textual list menu similar to QuickActions in that it pops up in a speech-bubble-like View when summoned. The Google+ app uses it for overflow items, for example.
Does anybody know of a library that'll let me easily implement these kinds of menus in my own app or, if not, what the most straightforward way of doing it from scratch would be?
Many thanks.
It is not a standard widget, but you can use: QuickAction dialog. Or you wan't something else?
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I'm currently developing an Android app for a client. Problem is their mockup screens contained a UI view that I'm unfamiliar with. In short, I'm not sure what approach/implementation to use.
This is what I'm trying to achieve:
The user taps on SALES TOOLS, and a popup of some sort appears with options leading to other features of the app.
Any suggestions on what implementation I can use?
There are lots of library Available in market
Please check this URL it may be help you links given below
Chrome Style Help Popups
Quick-action-pattern-in-Android
Another alternative would be "super-tooltips":
https://github.com/nhaarman/supertooltips
Use android.widget.PopupWindow to create popwindow for a view.
using it various method you can put the window where ever you want.
Use this link will satisfy your needs .
https://androidresearch.wordpress.com/2012/05/06/how-to-create-popups-in-android/
In my app I would like to have something quite similar to Android's built in popup menu (see link below), but it also needs to include checkboxes and images and I should be able to choose several checkboxes before closing (with the same button that opened it). Is it possible to do that with android popup menu? Is there a better way? Any chance there is a way to do it on android 2.1 (this the version on my demonstration device)?
Thanks for your time,
Lior
You can use the overflow menu in Android 3+. But there is a way to use it in lower APIs by just using ActionBar Sherlock. See the demo App of the ABS. There is also a demonstation of it.
It should look something like this.
I cannot find either one of these two views in the source, but have seen them both in many apps. Can anyone please tell me what they are called?
Thanks
The second one is an options menu from the action bar. I think it is implemented as a ListPopupWindow.
The first one is not part of the Android SDK, though there are various implementations floating around. Here is an example of one designed for use with Google Maps, for example. Here is one designed for the "quick actions" pattern.
I'm going to assume that they're custom made ones, so you won't find them in the standard Android libraries.
The second one I think is just the way that the default menu looks in ICS (and honeycomb for that matter). If you build for 4.0 and include the code for an options menu I think you'll get that UI by default. If you are looking to customize it check out this page http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html and pay close attention to the "Adding drop down navigation" section.
The first one is not a part of the android UI, that is something specific to the facebook app.
I am making an Android app and one of the activities in the app is a List Activity. I want the ListView to have the slide out options menu for the list items like you often see in apps like twitter:
I thought I read a while back that Android had a feature like this included in the sdk, but I can't seem to find any documentation or tutorials on it. Part of my problem is that I don't know exactly what the feature is called. I have done quite a bit of searching, but I haven't come up with anything useful. I am hoping that someone with a bit of Android development experience has seen this before and could recommend a resource or two.
Thanks!
This question has been asked before. They're called quick actions.
I'm just mucking around with Android tablet stuff in 3.0. I have fragments set up to do the equivalent of UISplitViewController for iPad. Anyone know what the best solution to get something like the iPad UIPopOverController is?
I'm thinking the options are either a separate dialog or something in the Action Bar ...?
I haven't actually seen any Android tablets running 3.0 so not clear what the standard will be ...
Many thanks in advance
This may not be exactly what you are looking for because I'm not all that familiar with UIPopOverController but I think you can accomplish something similar using a Toast with a customized layout.
I would take a look at Creating Toast Notifications and see if it works for you.
Depending on the functionality needed it might work, otherwise you might need to look into trying to generate a modeless dialog with a custom layout.
As for your other question, yes options are generally stored in a separate activity within your application and following Honeycomb design the options activity would be accessible from the Action Bar and the options itself could be a fragment.
Its nothing official but I would crack open the source code to the contacts app for 2.0+ They emulate the popover UI using an Activity in a pretty creative way. It might be a little over kill as it was designed to be usable by any application not just itself. But it should help give you a nudge in the right direction.
Also depending on what the behavior you are looking for exactly a combination of fragments and action bar could be the way to go, but its not going to be as easy as iOS.